ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERIZATION IN THE COMPILATION OF MALAY POETRY “MIRROR” a final project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra in English by Kartika Peni Saraswati 2211414029 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS UNIVERSITAS NEGERI SEMARANG 2019 ii DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY iii APPROVAL iv DEDICATION This final project is dedicated to: My parents v MOTTOS Choose with no regret. (Mary Anne Radmacher) No one knows what he can do until he tries. (Publilius Syrus) I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me. (Jonathan Lockwood Huie) Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself. (Jonathan Lockwood Huie) vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii ABSTRACT Saraswati, Kartika P. 2018. An Analysis Character and Characterization in the Compilation of Malay Poetry “Mirror”. Final Project. English Department, Faculty of Languages & Arts, Semarang State University. Advisor: Maria Johana Ari Widayanti, S.S., M.Si. Key Words: Characters, Characterization, New Criticism, Malay Poems, Mirror In the world of literature we know many forms of literature one of them is poetry. It describes one’s feelings very deeply more than a meaning in a novel. The topic of this research is characters and characterizations in the compilation of Malay poetry “Mirror”. The objectives of this research were; to describe kind of characters and characterizations are described in those Malay poems, to describe the poets’ revelation of character and characterization in their poems convey some values about human’s personality. This final project used qualitative research since the data was not numeric, the analysis explained in the form of words. This final project provided tables to make the analysis easier to be understood. The compilation of poetry “Mirror” the first edition which published by NHA Excell Resources on 2017 was used as the object of the research. The findings of this research were: type of characters, meaning of the poems, figurative meaning, type of characterizations and revelation of the poets’ poems that convey human’s personality. Based on the analysis about judging a person's character not only from their appearance. One must find out how not to judge someone’s appearance by interacting with other characters so that it will be easy to understand the person's character. Another way to understand someone's character can be by listening when one speaks or the way one responds to messages. viii TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY............................................................................ iii APPROVAL .................................................................................................................... iv DEDICATION ................................................................................................................. v MOTTOS......................................................................................................................... vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................... vii ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................. viii TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................ ix LIST OF POETRY .......................................................................................................... xi CHAPTER I 1.1 Background of the Study......................................................................................... 1 1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic ............................................................................. 4 1.3 Statements of the problem....................................................................................... 5 1.4 Objectives of the Studies......................................................................................... 5 1.5 Significance of the Study ........................................................................................ 5 1.6 Outline of the Report............................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER II 2.1 Review of Previous Study....................................................................................... 7 2.2 Review of Related Theories.................................................................................. 10 2.3 Theoretical Framework ......................................................................................... 31 CHAPTER III 3.1 Research Design.................................................................................................... 33 3.2 The Data Source.................................................................................................... 34 ix 3.3 Research Instruments ............................................................................................ 34 3.4 Data Collecting Technique.................................................................................... 35 3.5 Data Analysis Technique ...................................................................................... 35 CHAPTER IV 4.1 Analysis data ......................................................................................................... 37 4.2 Kind of Characters and Characterization Described in Malay Poems .................. 79 4.3 Character and Characterization in the Poems as a Revelation of Human Personality 84 CHAPTER V 5.1 Conclusion ............................................................................................................ 91 5.2 Suggestions ........................................................................................................... 92 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................... 93 APPENDIXES................................................................................................................ 96 x LIST OF POETRY Poem 1. Alligator............................................................................................................ 96 Poem 2. Fairytale............................................................................................................ 97 Poem 3. Ugly Flower...................................................................................................... 98 Poem 4. Wait .................................................................................................................. 99 Poem 5. Fairy Tales by Shakespeare ............................................................................ 100 Poem 6. Little Heart ..................................................................................................... 101 Poem 7. A Game of Love ............................................................................................. 102 Poem 8. Truth ............................................................................................................... 103 xi CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 presents background of the study, reasons for choosing the topic, statements of the problem, objectives of the study, significance of the study, and outline of the study. 1.1 Background of the Study In the world of literature we know many forms of literature such as prose, poetry, and drama. In this present time, many people prefer watching movies rather than reading because it has so many words that makes us be reluctant to read and makes us sleepy. However, some people prefer to read poetry, novels, prose, or others because reading is one of their hobbies. That is why they enjoy reading than watching. According to William Wordsworth (1770), “poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” Poetry describes one’s feelings very deeply more than a meaning in a novel. A lot of poems are very difficult to understand in a single reading even though the selection of words is not too complicated. Therefore, we have to read it over and over again as we read novels. The author thinks that poetry is shorter than novels, so there is no difficulty in searching for evidence on the page you are looking for. The writer chose some poems in this study entitled “Alligator” by Khairul Zaman Khobin, “Little Heart” by Vanhitha Kernagaran, “Fairytale” by Suhana Hussin, “Ugly Flower” and “A Game of Love” by Sezgin Khoo Kay Win, “Fairy 1 2 Tales by Shakespeare” by Rushaida Ruslan, and the last “Wait” and “Truth” by Tan Cheng Cheng. The first poem tells us about how women judge men for doing things such as breaking their hearts, flirting with other women when they still have a girlfriend to mention a few though actually not all men are like that. The second poem is ‘Little Heart’ by Vanhitha Kernagaran is about a couple who want to show affection but are afraid of an uncertain possibility that will happen to their partner. The next poem is “Fairytale” by Suhanna Hussin; this poem tells about the life of a person who is not the character of a fairy tale, but has a story that is not much different from the tales in general because it has the same ending that is happy ending. Other two poems entitled “Ugly Flower” and “A Game of Love” by Sezgin Khoo Kay Win tell us about someone who is in love. Sometimes love does make a person stupid because he loves his partner too much. But in “Ugly Flower” poetry, someone expects us to fulfill their expectations. Do not ever feel that you're ugly because we shine in our own way.